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...highly successful experiment with a unit that replaced both of a dog's ventricles. Yet progress in the field is so fast that within four days the researchers were dismissing their test as old hat. They were getting as good or better results with a single ballooning sac inserted in the left ventricle alone. It seems, says Dr. Hall, that this may be enough in many cases to stimulate, if not precisely duplicate, the work of nature's complex four-chambered heart...
...more ominous, the recipient had a number of severe congenital abnormalities. These had led to repeated urinary-tract infections, and caused in turn, congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, and the formation of kidney stones. Now, on top of everything else, he had anemia and inflammation of the heart sac...
...would be worn and obsolete, and the limited number of B-58s would be obsolescent at best," while "for the first time in the history of American strategic airpower, no follow-on bomber is under development." Power's emergency solution: Adapt the F-lll (TFX) fighter-bomber for SAC use as a medium-range strategic bomber...
...such planes -adapted models of the familiar Boeing 707 commercial airliner-that spell each other in eight-hour, all-weather shifts. No one plane lands until another has become airborne. Dubbed "Looking Glass," the plane is manned by a crew that flies a random pattern within radar distance of SAC's Omaha headquarters. The SAC general aboard, one of 50 who regularly pull Looking Glass duty, is the AEAO (for Airborne Emergency Actions Officer). He is in charge of a group of officers and technicians maintaining instant communications with Omaha, the White House, the Pentagon, and each...
Under certain specifically detailed emergency conditions, the Looking Glass plane would become a crucial factor in U.S. strategy by operating as a relay station that would send messages from superior command stations on the ground to SAC bombers and missile-launching sites. If all or most ground commands were wiped out, the AEAO would take over the direction of a U.S. thermonuclear retaliation. Through a multiple-checked series of authentications, he would break open a locked "red box" and issue the "Go" orders to missile sites and bomber bases that would send nuclear warheads toward preselected targets. Says one AEAO...